A look at Gentoo 2004.2 [LWN.net]

A look at Gentoo 2004.2

Posted Aug 12, 2004 19:54 UTC (Thu) by drathos (guest, #6454)
In reply to: A look at Gentoo 2004.2 by dododge
Parent article: A look at Gentoo 2004.2

The newer nvidia drivers are "keyword masked". This is something akin to Debian's testing branch. The proper way of installing masked ebuilds is to create the file /etc/portage/package.keywords and add the proper package and keywords. For the nvidia drivers add:

media-video/nvidia-glx ~x86
media-video/nvidia-kernel ~x86

(This is assuming that you're running x86, not amd64 or something more exotic.)

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A look at Gentoo 2004.2

Posted Aug 13, 2004 2:24 UTC (Fri) by dododge (subscriber, #2870) [Link]

Thanks for the tip. I brought up the driver issue on a LUG mailing list and some Gentoo-knowledgable folks there explained the keyword-based system in detail. Hopefully my next install attempt this weekend will go more smoothly.